Re: how to get zsh to work with a screen reader

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Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:34:49 +0200
> "Christoph (Stucki) von Stuckrad" <stucki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > > The ZLE editor does not use the curses package for screen optimization,
> > 
> > It might be a strange idea, but what happenes in different
> > terminal-emulators?
> 
> Something else that might just be worth a look at is the shell parameter
> BAUD, which indicates the terminal speed.  It's not much used these
> days, and isn't set by default, but you can set it to an estimate of the
> terminal speed in bits per second.  This changes the way the shell
> decides to redisplay things.   In particular, if it's small but
> non-zero, the shell knows updates to the output take a long time ---
> which is exactly your case, in effect.  The code for this is still
> there, though I don't think it's had much attention for some time.

Thanks much for your response.
I tried BAUD=110 and it slowed down the display of each character, but I
still got the repeats, but maybe I can find something in the code around
there to dink with -- thanks a lot.  I also tried 300 and 1200, but I
didn't notice any change.


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